Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The distance to the Coma cluster using the B-band Tully-Fisher relation

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/170250· OSTI ID:5257900
; ; ; ;  [1]
  1. Kyoto University (Japan) Kiso Observatory, Nagano (Japan) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States) Delaware, University, Newark (United States)
The present estimate of the distance to the Coma cluster on the basis of the B-band Tully-Fisher (T-F) relation has conducted photographic surface photometry on all galaxies for which H I line width data in a circle of 4-deg radius centered on the Coma cluster. A detailed estimate is made of the cluster population incompleteness bias for the distance estimation. While the correction for sample incompleteness, in conjunction with the T-F relation, increases the distance modulus, the result cannot be as large as the value indicated by Kraan-Kortweg et al. (1988). 65 refs.
OSTI ID:
5257900
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal; (United States), Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal; (United States) Vol. 376; ISSN ASJOA; ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English